'Periodica Polytechnica Budapest University of Technology and Economics'
Abstract
The use of the inverted pendulum experiment in teaching control theory and practice is
now widely accepted in the area of control education. This paper describes an environment
built upon an operating inverted pendulum suitable to design and test several linear
controllers by using the well known MATLAB and its toolboxes. The environment has
been designed to maximally fit to MATLAB procedures and interfaces. A significant part
of the environment is a support for identification and model based control, which provides
a MATLAB compatible mode to acquire data of the relevant variables and to generate
disturbances with predesiglled characteristics. Some didactic examples - mainly from
the field of model based conLrol are described. As the examples present, the inverted
pendulum experiment is suitable to use it in teaching - beyond the conventional ones -
the more contemporary topics of the control science